If you’ve read Parts 1 and 2 of this blog title, you’re probably sick of hearing about verb tenses by now. I’m going to start thinking about something else, I promise, but here’s the last thing I’ve got to say on the subject. Suppose, we are sitting having a drink in a cozy pub andContinue reading “A Question of Tense – part 3”
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The Suspension of Disbelief
Given all the stuff I’ve written in previous blogs about how language and narrative works, here is an interesting question: how does the author use the text to convince us to suspend our disbelief? After all, one of the most important things about any story is that we should believe that it is true, atContinue reading “The Suspension of Disbelief”
